"The term “underrepresented minority” is widely used... However, I prefer the term “systematically marginalized groups” (SMGs) because the underrepresentation of certain people in certain places is not coincidental; it is intentional." __ says
@Chem_Diva
Headed home to Lockhart, TX this week to celebrate with family as I make my transition from Phoenix, AZ to Baltimore, MD: I am starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University this fall, y’all! 🙌🏽
On my way to Baltimore, MD & honored to join the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University as a Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor!
It’s official, y’all. This WOC from Lockhart, TX & daughter of Mexican immigrants from San Luis Potosí is now Doctora Bautista-Chavez. I’m starting my career as
#profesora
at
@ASU
ready to be a researcher, educator & fierce mentor in these important times.
I received this card from an undergrad student I taught during my first semester of teaching at ASU. I’m also a first gen college student and I know I wouldn’t be here without a community of supportive educators. I’m crying happy tears, y’all.
Y'all, my dissertation, "The Domestic and International Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy" was awarded the prize for the best dissertation on a topic of Race, Ethnicity, or Migration and Politics by the Department of Government at Harvard University!
Wrapping up my 2nd year as an Assistant Prof
@ASU_SPGS
with a teaching award!
High-quality teaching & undergrad research training can go hand-in-hand with rigorous research, y’all.
Grateful to be a profesora & mentor to this emerging gen of talent 🙌🏽
I submitted my dissertation to my committee! I empirically document the administrative architecture of U.S. international migration control. I’m grateful to my transnational village of support. I’ll soon be a doctora y’all! 🤎
#firstgen
#latinaphd
#HarvardPhD
#ASUProfesora
Sharing my syllabi, for folks teaching migration & border-related courses. My classes invest in researcher training, and I assign cumulative assignments + provide detailed assignment descriptions + guiding rubrics. This is key for 1st gen college students.
Grades submitted and plants thriving! Y’all, I just completed my first semester as a profesora at ASU!
But for real, it was tough. This job is many jobs, and everyday feels like juggling (research, teaching, advising, hiring committee, & many things that arise week by week).
It's official: Today I begin as an Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU! I am holding a lot of emotions, including deep gratitude to everyone who has helped me, and great excitement to meet my new undergraduate students at ASU.
My chest is tight. The same ppl who worked to deny Dr. García Peña tenure are the same ppl who worked to discipline me during my time at Harvard. My doctoral research reflects the real need I had to build support far beyond my home field and home dept.
The School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU is hiring 2 TT positions in Global Studies. (I'm on the search committee).
The positions are open with respect to discipline, field, methods, and geographic area of expertise!
Deadline: Dec 7
@ASU_SPGS
Through years of intense (un)learning, (re)training, & daily writing/reciprocal support/mutual accountability with women of color, I finally wrote a book proposal I am proud of!
Thank you
@ubclas
&
@UBCMigration
for inviting me to share my book project w faculty & grad students!
In Spring 2022, I will teach my first grad course on: Politics of International Migration and Expanding Borders.
Pls let me know of recent books, chapters, or articles that I can add to my syllabus!
Pls share w your first-gen, low-income POC undergrads: UCLA School of Law – Law Fellows Program [Due: Oct 23, 2020]. The program prepares participants to successfully enter and succeed in top law programs and legal careers.
Hiring? People of Color Also Know Stuff (
@POCalsoknow
) created a list of amazing folks who are currently looking for jobs. Learn about these emerging experts & invest in their talent and careers:
This spring, I'll be teaching my first grad-level course: Politics of International Migration and Expanding Borders.
Sharing syllabus, which includes Reading List + Description of Assignments (students
incrementally develop a research project).
We write & we hike! Our WOC writing group gathered to hike in South PHX. 3 miles and a lot of joy.
It’s been 2 years of celebrating each other, holding each other accountable, investing in each other, and prioritizing our individual and collective wellbeing.
Postdoc opportunity: Inequality in America Initiative
@Harvard
. The program will be expanded in the coming year to recruit two additional early career scholars whose work focuses specifically on issues of racial and ethnic inequality.
I am sharing my Fall 2022 US immigration politics syllabus. It includes assigned readings, assignment descriptions, and rubrics.
Shout out to ASU's Community Driven Archives Initiative + SPGS Experimental Lab for working with my students this semester!
Y’all, today
@k_r_johnson
and I were both awarded the 2020-2021 Harvard University Government Department Diversity & Inclusion Award for exemplary leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Academia and higher education are difficult, unfair, and even violent spaces ...
On behalf of the APSA Migration & Citizenship Executive Council, we invite y'all to attend our first Mentoring Workshop Series event of the year!
Publishing in Migration Journals
Friday, March 1
Noon to 1:30PM EST
via Zoom
Registration Link:
This week I gave my final lecture of the semester!
Many of my students are immigrants, children of immigrants, refugees, and a part of mixed-status families — & they have a range of direct experiences w the US immigration system.
It was a joy to co-learn with them.
I am co-editing a Special Issue in Politics, Groups and Identities (PGI) on the theme: "How to Conduct Civically Engaged Research in A Time of Contentious Politics."
Share CFP & submit your work here:
@APSAtweets
Chapters examine sovereignty, power, and obstructions to Indigenous rights and self-determination as well as globalization and the economic impacts of borders.
Book proposes future action informed by Indigenous Peoples’ voices, needs, and advocacy:
📚 Indigenous Peoples and Borders. Eds
@sheryllightfoot
and Elsa Stamatopoulou.
@DukePress
January 2024.
"offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality"
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA, by Nadia Y. Kim.
“…a grassroots movement for environmental justice has grown, predominated by Asian and undocumented Latinx immigrant women who are transforming our political landscape.”
This week I received an award for peer mentorship and it was a legit joy to celebrate sisterhood in academia with the Faculty Women of Color Caucus.
@ASU
@asuwomenofcolor
“This book uses reflections on the Black experience to trouble and progress the habits of thought that have accreted around the concept of “migration” as it’s been defined for us by … the global North.”
Read intro:
“Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations calls on well-meaning humanitarians—scholars, activists, and the like—to wipe the smudge of antiblackness from our lens. This is a bold and important book.”
—Jamie Longazel
My belongings are in boxes and on their way to Baltimore. I feel comfort in knowing that the deep relationships I’ve nourished in AZ can traverse time & geography. I am headed to Baltimore with renewed capacity and energy, & legit excited for the things ahead.
Martinez reconstructs this history from institutional and private archives and oral histories, to show how the horror of anti-Mexican violence lingered within communities for generations, compounding injustice by inflicting further pain and loss.
Latino soccer players who regularly play in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood where they are not always welcome ... forge new identities, friendships, and job opportunities, giving themselves a renewed sense of self-worth and community:
Prof. Bautista-Chavez, y’all! My students are already forming groups & identifying research questions for semester-long projects. This is my favorite part of teaching: guiding students across the research process 💪🏽
For the past yr, I’ve been a part of a faculty WOC writing group. During these difficult pandemic times, I’ve been in the daily virtual company of women. Our collective has grown + our connections have deepened. And now, we are adding outside walks as part our writing routine!
“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space.��
I just submitted my first Faculty Annual Review as a TT profesora! So much of my progress, growth, wellbeing, creativity is because of the affirmation, support, accountability, protection, and advocacy of faculty women of color.
I made myself celebratory BBQ ribs and frijoles as I prepare to enter my 33rd year of life. Pic of ~3 yr old Angie Maritza en la Media Luna, Rio Verde, San Luis Potosí.
Y'all, the 2022 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Program is accepting applications! I was an RBSI Fellow back in 2012 & happy to talk to your students about it.
Pls share with your undergrads!
Dates: May 29 - June 30, 2022 @ Duke University
Applications Due: Jan 21, 2022
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery:
2 yrs ago, I was awarded a teaching award by
@HarvardGSAS
. Now I’m at
@ASU
, and I’m excited to teach a public policy class & an immigration politics class this upcoming fall semester
@ASU_SPGS
🙌🏽
Wrapping up my first year as an Assistant Professor by celebrating my graduate students and undergrad researchers! They’ve done excellent research this semester and I’ve learned so much as well! Some pics of our in-class conference presentations &
@ASU_SPGS
celebration 🙌🏽
This is what professors look like: talented WOC doing cutting-edge & meaningful research, who uplift & amplify each other’s work, who hold each other accountable, & who work to see each other for their full authentic selves. We are the Faculty Women of Color Caucus at
@ASU
.
The profesora life continues. Starting off the year with a Writing Convivencia — a virtual writing retreat hosted by the Faculty Women of Color Caucus and facilitated by Dra Aurora Chang.
@asuwomenofcolor
[1] This summer, I worked with a group of talented PhD and undergraduate researchers at ASU on a large-scale and multi-method data collection project to examine the organizational terrain of U.S. Latinx politics. I am excited to share some of our updates & work in progress.
My grad class is closing out the spring semester with a discussion of
@KevinAEscudero
's Organizing While Undocumented, and other research on immigrants and collective action! Y'all, I'm almost done teaching my first grad class <3
Y’all, I got my diploma! I opened my diploma from my mom’s sala while wearing a mask. I hope when the time is right, I can celebrate w folks who helped me throughout my long journey from Lockhart TX to a Harvard PhD. I dream of mariachi, taquizas, & dancing with friends/family.
Virtually moderated and attended ASU’s Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) conference while wearing bright purple. Grateful to be a part of supportive and nourishing academic communities 👏🏽
“In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land.”
Harvest. Grateful to the talented and steadfast people of South Phoenix and their decades of collective action, sustained labor, and commitments to place that have created an urban farm with an abundant ecosystem of plants, vegetables, insects, birds, and people.
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Conference happening on Fri, Jan 19, 2024.
Hosted by the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR).
Register here:
Today I presented at the American Politics & Global Studies Workshop at
@ASU_SPGS
and shared my project on Latinx Organizations! This work combines my research interests on organizational behavior with community engaged work & research pipeline building 🙌🏽
[2] After many months, we created an original database of 700 organizations that serve, represent, or lobby on behalf of Latinx communities across the United States. The database includes orgs across all 50 states.
First week of classes at ASU
@ASU_SPGS
complete!
It’s also been a joy to share a bit of my profesora life with my friend, Dr. Pamela Nwakanma (
@DiasporicNerd
).
Check out her work on gender, political and economic power, and networks!
It has been difficult to celebrate during a pandemic, while I’m still writing, and while I’m far from loved ones. But. Today I am virtually celebrating with grads from Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy👩🏽🎓💪🏽🔥
#LatinaPhD
#FirstGen
#ItTakesAVillage
Afghan scholars, journalists, and researchers who have recently left Afghanistan (or are planning their departure) can request an academic appointment to ASU. Financial and institutional support from ASU for 1 year, with possible renewal. More info here:
One of my greatest early-career accomplishments has been helping to develop support infrastructure for scholars working at the intersections of Latino politics & American institutions.
Happy to share CLAPR is making 3 awards of $2K each! Apply by May 31:
@asu_clapr
@ASU
Y'aaaall. Things still have to be confirmed, but it looks like I'll be teaching the following courses at
@ASU
next year: 👏🏽 Politics of U.S. Immigration, 👏🏽Global Migration Politics, and 👏🏽(Re)Making U.S. Public Agencies.
Our Latinx Organizations research team is building accountability mechanisms so that our project does not reproduce academic extraction from community. Shoutout to the Junior Fellows program that supports undergraduate student research opportunities at
@ASU_SPGS
🙌🏽
Tracing strict immigration policies & inhumane border treatment from the Clinton era through Democratic and Republican administrations alike, Rosas shows how the rhetoric around these policies helped lead to the Trump administration's immigration agenda & the massacre in El Paso:
Grateful to Efrén Pérez and Jessica Cobian for thier review & for calling on political science – especially American politics and the study of political behavior – to more fully engage with the political lives of Latinos. No more excuses, y'all.
If you’re scholarship touches on Latino politics, race and politics, and/or US political behavior,
@jessycobian22
and I hope this just published Annual Review essay of ours is useful to you:
cc:
@REPS_Lab
I’m proud to be from Lockhart, TX: A rural town that fundraised to send me to college. But when I got to Harvard, I heard two ppl in my dept say country accents are proxy for non-intelligence. My fam is from rural Mexico, I’m from rural Texas. And I love being “de rancho.”
“Mexico is one of the superpowers of Latin America and, therefore, I must build an analysis of what Mexican nationalism does or does not do for Black, Indigenous, and Asian Mexicans.”
— ALÁN PELAEZ LOPEZ
Good morning to all except Mexican nationalists.
My essay, “As a Black Oaxacan, I Have No Choice But to Betray Mexican Nationalism” dropped today in
@Refinery29
Kristy L. Ulibarri demonstrates how the national-security state performs anti-immigrant and xenophobic politics that substitute cathartic nationalism for protections from the free market while ensuring maximal corporate profits through the manufacture of disposable migrant labor:
Thrilled to announce Visible Borders, Invisible Economies won the 2023 Association for Ethnic Studies Outstanding Book Award! So grateful to be recognized by my colleagues for this work.
@NAETHNICSTUDIES
@UTexasPress
@DrNMGH
@lorgia_pena
Y’all, my doctoral degree exists in physical form and is on its way to my home in Lockhart, TX where my Mexican mom will probably frame it and put it next to my quinceañera picture ❤️
#firstgen
#daughterofimmigrants
In “Tejiendo Sinidad,” Yareli Castro Sevilla tells the stories of present-day Chinese Mexicans. As a formerly undocumented immigrant and a descendant of Sinaloense Chinese Mexicans, immigration is an integral part of her story, methodologies, and scholarship.
Learn more, y’all:
Grateful to
@ASU
’s Community-Driven Archives Initiative for engaging students in my U.S. Immigration Politics course to learn about archives & interviews!
Next week, we’ll host
@ASU_SPGS
’s Experiential Lab to learn about in-person & online experiments.
Undergrad researchers👏🏽
Harvard was a difficult place & the PhD journey is unfairly made harder for POC & folks with fewer resources. But the power of community is a game changer, y’all: With the support of mentors, friends, centers, and staff, this country, first-gen Latina learned to...
So many of us have carried a shame imposed by others who question our place in political science. Happy folks are letting go of that shame and doing important work that centers questions and communities they care about.
I am an ethnographer who studies questions of immigration, resistance, and activism
I've gotten used to hearing questions about whether I am or should be a political scientist
At least today, I have no doubt that I am one. And I stand in my rightful place (6/6)
Y'all, I was just accepted into
@ASU
's inaugural Research Leadership Development Cohort, co-sponsored by the Faculty Women of Color Caucus and Knowledge Enterprise’s Research Development! The program includes sessions covering the following topics:
Immigrants are not passive players. Jane Lilly López shows in great detail how immigrants & their families navigate & contend with the (administrative) state.
Y’all, check out her book! & Here’s my review. López provides valuable lessons for PS & PA:
Just finished giving a (virtual) talk in my department about my book project! I spent half of my talk integrating the amazing research on externalization, the immigration bureaucracy, and bureaucratic autonomy. & I had a really good/intense workout this AM 💪🏽
Today I met with my first
@ASU_SPGS
1st Year PhD Advisee! We dedicated the meeting to fall strategic planning (centering research *and* personal goals), and mentor mapping (both within and beyond our department) 🙌🏽
Shout out to
@NCFDD
for the resources!
Today I co-led a workshop about bureaucracy and violence with the talented
@camatus
at
@CASBSStanford
. Grateful to Robert Gibbons and Woody Powell for their intentional and persistent work to create cross-disciplinary research communities.
My team and I will be at LSA, sharing from our data collection to document the political and organizational ecosystems of Latinx communities to explain how Latinos forge inclusion amid exclusive and repressive environments across the United States!
LSA 2024 (Program Updates): We are pleased to make the revised LSA 2024 Program available for you all on the conference page of our website. PDF link in thread 🧵
Attended my first graduation as faculty member (had to borrow cap/gown bc I still haven’t had my own PhD graduation). It felt so special to sit behind a first-generation college student during the ceremony 🙌🏽
@ASU
With fall break next week, I polled students for feedback. It’s my first semester teaching my own undergrad courses & each week I feel a mix of excitement/anxiety/insecurity. Reading through the feedback. And going to frame this one, bc
#3
is the reason I wanted to be a professor